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The Forward Deployed Pod
How a ninety-day pod is composed and run: the three roles, what each produces in each phase, and, most importantly, the client-side counterparts without which the month-three handoff does not survive contact with month four.
PDF · 12 pages · includes RACI
What's inside
- 01
Pod composition
AI Strategist, AI Architect, AI Engineers: scope and accountability for each.
- 02
Phase cadence
Identify, Build, Enable: entry criteria, exit criteria, and the artifacts produced.
- 03
Client-side counterparts
The three people you need to name, and what happens when you do not.
- 04
RACI matrix
Decision rights across both organizations for the full ninety days.
- 05
Handoff checklist
What has to be true before the pod leaves: runbooks, access, and named owners.
Use it when
- You are scoping an embedded engagement
- A prior pilot failed at handoff
- You need to staff your side of a build